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Département fédéral de l'intérieur DFI
Office fédéral de la culture OFC
Bibliothèque nationale suisse BN
EDUG
Patrice Landry
Swiss National Library
International DDC Meeting 2011, San Juan, Puerto Rico – 16 August 2011
Département fédéral de l'intérieur DFI
Office fédéral de la culture OFC
Bibliothèque nationale suisse BN
Growth of the use of the DDC in Europe
• Since the late 1990s, there have been many
translations of the DDC (French, Italian, German
versions of DDC21 and 22)
• Growth in the use of the DDC by European libraries
• Need for a more coordinated approach in making
proposals for the development of the DDC
• Need to share experience in the use of the DDC
International DDC Meeting 2011, San Juan, Puerto Rico – 16 August 2011
Département fédéral de l'intérieur DFI
Office fédéral de la culture OFC
Bibliothèque nationale suisse BN
EDUG
EDUG (European DDC Users’ Group) was created in
2007 at the inaugural meeting in Bern to:
• To promote professional interests of all users of the
DDC in Europe by the exchange of experience in the
use of the DDC;
• To coordinate proposals for the development of the
DDC according to the bibliographic needs of
European libraries and users in collaboration with
the Dewey Classification Editorial Policy Committee
(EPC) and OCLC;
International DDC Meeting 2011, San Juan, Puerto Rico – 16 August 2011
Département fédéral de l'intérieur DFI
Office fédéral de la culture OFC
Bibliothèque nationale suisse BN
EDUG (2)
• To encourage the development and dissemination of
techniques, applications, software, documentation
and procedures in the areas of translation and
access;
• To encourage and promote co-operation in the
translation of the DDC into European languages.
International DDC Meeting 2011, San Juan, Puerto Rico – 16 August 2011
Département fédéral de l'intérieur DFI
Office fédéral de la culture OFC
Bibliothèque nationale suisse BN
EDUG membership
• Two categories of members: Institutional and
Affiliated
• Institutional member: European national
library / bibliographic centre responsible for
the use and implementation of the DDC in its
country
• Affiliated member: Institution, organisation
interested in the use and implementation of
the DDC in Europe
International DDC Meeting 2011, San Juan, Puerto Rico – 16 August 2011
Département fédéral de l'intérieur DFI
Office fédéral de la culture OFC
Bibliothèque nationale suisse BN
EDUG Members in 2011
8 Institutional members
• Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Firenze
• Bibliothèque nationale de France
• British Library
• Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
• National Library of Norway
• National Library of Sweden
• Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
• Swiss National Library
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Département fédéral de l'intérieur DFI
Office fédéral de la culture OFC
Bibliothèque nationale suisse BN
EDUG Members 2011
9 Affiliated members
• Bibliotheks- und Archiwesen der Universität Wien,
Universitätsbibliothek
• Linköpings universitetsbibliotek, Sweden
• Menntaskolinn vid Sund-Library, Reykjavik, Iceland
• Oberosterreichische Landesbibliothek
• OCLC EMEA B.V.
• Scottish Library and Information Council - SLIC
• Stockholm University Library
• Université de la Méditerranée – Aix-Marseille II
• Verbundzentrale des Gemeinsamen (VZG),
Göttingen, Germany
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Département fédéral de l'intérieur DFI
Office fédéral de la culture OFC
Bibliothèque nationale suisse BN
EDUG structure
The General Meeting of the Members
• A General Meeting is held at least once a year in
April (before EPC meeting)
• 5th annual meeting to be held on 8th April
The Executive Committee (current)
Chair: Patrice Landry (SNL)
Vice-Chair: Karin Kleiber (ÖNB)
Secretary: Caroline Kent (BL)
The Working Groups
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Département fédéral de l'intérieur DFI
Office fédéral de la culture OFC
Bibliothèque nationale suisse BN
What EDUG has done so far
• Organised 5 national annual symposia on the DDC
(in conjunction with the General Annual Meetings of
the Members (business and WG meetings))
(2007: Bern, 2008: Frankfurt, 2009: Vienna, 2010:
Alexandria, Stockholm 2011)
• EDUG is governed by a Cooperation Agreement
(Bylaws)
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Département fédéral de l'intérieur DFI
Office fédéral de la culture OFC
Bibliothèque nationale suisse BN
Concrete actions in the development
of the DDC
• Proposals from WGs in: 340 (Law), 370 (Education),
930 (Archaelogy), IT: Technical issues WG
• Work of WGs done in relationship with OCLC /
Dewey and the EPC
• Proposals / discussion papers from EDUG submitted
to the EPC
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Département fédéral de l'intérieur DFI
Office fédéral de la culture OFC
Bibliothèque nationale suisse BN
EDUG input in DDC 23
340 Law:
• updates for the European Union, criminal courts, juristic acts
370 Education
• improved international framework for levels of education,
kinds of schools, policiy issues and specific subjects in
primary education
930 History of the ancient world
• expansion of geographic areas and historical periods in 930
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Département fédéral de l'intérieur DFI
Office fédéral de la culture OFC
Bibliothèque nationale suisse BN
Communication, promotion,
development – EDUG IT WG
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Département fédéral de l'intérieur DFI
Office fédéral de la culture OFC
Bibliothèque nationale suisse BN
For more information on EDUG:
http://www.slainte.org.uk/edug/index.htm
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